Top Innovators
Bob May is Principal Engineer at Baltimore Gas and Electric. David Outen is a Section Engineer for Transmission Engineering at Baltimore Gas and Electric, and for this specific project was the BGE engineer during the execution phase of the project that installed the lines. Danilo Policastro is a Section Engineer for Transmission and Substation Regional Projects at Baltimore Gas and Electric, and for this specific project was the Transmission and Substation Innovation Lead.
Exelon/Baltimore Gas and Electric won the Fortnightly Top Innovator 2025 award ''Florence Fogler Top Innovator in Energy Transmission Technologies'' for its Transmission Interphase Spacers.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: Describe the innovation and its positive impact.
Bob May: We have a set of circuits across the Patapsco River near the Baltimore Harbor that had experienced a series of unplanned outages. While those are not good, they also impacted the power quality to some of our important customers, like hospitals. We were tasked with trying to remediate these operations.
Instead of anti-sway devices, we pioneered a design with RIBE in Germany for interphase spacers on a two hundred thirty kilovolt circuit with the frame installed underneath the conductors, instead of above. That configuration is unique in the country.